Beyond The Horizon

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyers mounted a broad attack on the federal investigation, arguing that prosecutors had built their case on unreliable witness accounts, distorted police reports and evidence that the defense said had been taken out of context. They accused investigators of ignoring statements favorable to Epstein, mischaracterizing physical evidence and failing to reconcile later FBI reports w...

Chad Daybell was found guilty on May 30, 2024, after an Ada County jury deliberated for roughly six hours following a seven-week trial. Jurors convicted him on every count submitted to them, including first-degree murder in the deaths of 16-year-old Tylee Ryan, 7-year-old JJ Vallow and his wife, Tammy Daybell, as well as conspiracy charges, grand theft and insurance fraud. Prosecutors had argued t...

Day thirty-one of Chad Daybell’s trial was devoted to closing arguments, with prosecutors pulling together weeks of testimony into a single theory built around what Fremont County Prosecutor Lindsey Blake called “money, power and sex.” Blake argued that Chad did not have to personally kill JJ Vallow, Tylee Ryan or Tammy Daybell to be guilty, because the evidence showed that he had entered into a c...

Day twenty-nine brought Chad Daybell’s defense case to an end and immediately opened the prosecution’s rebuttal. Forensic anthropologist Dr. Eric Bartelink was the final defense witness, testifying about the badly burned and incomplete remains of Tylee Ryan. Bartelink said large portions of Tylee’s skeleton were missing and that her body appeared to have been burned largely intact before being bro...

Day twenty-seven of Chad Daybell’s trial continued the defense effort to challenge both the prosecution’s theory of Tammy Daybell’s death and the investigation itself. Chad’s son-in-law Joseph Murray returned to the stand and was questioned about money Chad distributed to his children on June 9, 2020, the same day investigators discovered JJ Vallow and Tylee Ryan buried on Chad’s property; Murray...

Day twenty-six of Chad Daybell’s trial marked the beginning of the defense case, with Daybell’s children taking the stand to challenge the prosecution’s portrayal of Tammy Daybell as healthy before her death. Emma Murray testified that Tammy had been increasingly tired, suffered from medical problems including what Emma described as anemia and sleep apnea, bruised easily and sometimes struggled wi...

Day 25 of Chad Daybell’s trial marked the end of the prosecution’s case, with retired FBI Special Agent Doug Hart serving as its final witness. Hart walked jurors through some of the most damaging communications between Chad and Lori Vallow, including discussions of the supposed “death percentages” of Tylee Ryan, JJ Vallow and Tammy Daybell and Chad’s claims that he could spiritually attack people...

During a 2002 humanitarian trip to Africa aboard Jeffrey Epstein’s aircraft, former president Bill Clinton was photographed receiving a brief neck and shoulder massage from Chauntae Davies during a stop at an airport in Portugal. Davies, then 22, was working as a flight attendant for Epstein and later said Epstein had sexually assaulted and exploited her. According to Davies, Clinton complained th...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

Day 24 of Chad Daybell’s trial focused heavily on the prosecution’s effort to tie Chad, Lori Vallow and Alex Cox together through phone records, text messages and their behavior surrounding the deaths. FBI investigator Ricky Wright finished his testimony about Alex’s cellphone movements, including his roughly two-and-a-half-hour stay at Chad’s property on September 9, 2019, when prosecutors believ...

Day 22 of Chad Daybell’s trial focused heavily on the physical evidence surrounding the death and disposal of Tylee Ryan. FBI forensic anthropologist Dr. Angi Christensen testified that she examined more than 100 of Tylee’s bones and found fractures and sharp-force injuries inflicted while the bones were still “biomechanically fresh,” meaning around the time of death, although she could not say wh...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

The New Mexico Survivors’ Truth Commission’s 119-page interim report described Zorro Ranch as a major and largely neglected component of Jeffrey Epstein’s broader operation, concluding that authorities failed for years to seriously investigate what happened there. According to the Commission, Epstein maintained an elaborate, highly controlled compound in New Mexico where survivors reported sexual...

In 2017, Jeffrey Epstein supposedly threatened to expose an extramarital affair between Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova in order to force Gates to reimburse Epstein for tuition Epstein had paid for Antonova’s software coding school. The source claims that Epstein used this knowledge of the affair as leverage after Gates had declined to join a philanthropic fund Epstein w...

In 2017, Jeffrey Epstein supposedly threatened to expose an extramarital affair between Bill Gates and a Russian bridge player named Mila Antonova in order to force Gates to reimburse Epstein for tuition Epstein had paid for Antonova’s software coding school. The source claims that Epstein used this knowledge of the affair as leverage after Gates had declined to join a philanthropic fund Epstein w...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

Day five of Tyler Robinson’s preliminary hearing focused heavily on the defense effort to weaken the prosecution’s DNA evidence. The defense called ATF DNA Section Chief Caitlin Oliver, who had performed testing on evidence including the rifle prosecutors said was used to kill Charlie Kirk and a Dremel tool recovered from Robinson’s home. Oliver acknowledged that DNA testing could not establish wh...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...

New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez accused Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn of being active financial and administrative participants in what the complaint called the “Epstein Enterprise,” rather than merely Jeffrey Epstein’s lawyer and accountant. The state alleged that the enterprise operated from at least 1997 until Epstein’s death in 2019 and used properties including Zorro Ranch to recruit...